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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
Cc: Pgsql-Performance ((E-mail)) <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: 64-bit vs 32-bit performance ... backwards?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:15:29 -0700
Message-ID: <448E11B1.20309@commandprompt.com> (raw)
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> Empirically... postgresql built for 64 bits is marginally slower than 
> that built
> for a 32 bit api on sparc. None of my customers have found 64 bit x86
> systems to be suitable for production use, yet, so I've not tested on any
> of those architectures.

Really? All of our customers are migrating to Opteron and I have many 
that have been using Opteron for over 12 months happily.

Joshua D. Drake

> 
> Cheers,
>   Steve
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